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ATOMIC BOMB - PART THREE

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Title: ATOMIC BOMB - PART THREE
File Number: ACL-3015 Digibeta; Beta SP
Type: Compilation
Year: 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1995
Subjects: Aerials
Description: 3015-1 03:00:39:11 -- 03:01:07:06 1945 or 1946 Color Silent HISTORY: POST-BLAST JAPAN - DAMAGE Damaging Effects of the A-Bomb Montage of damaged and ruined buildings after US atomic blast in Japan- facades, columns and arches standing in bright daylight. PA (8076) 3015-2 03:01:07:07 -- 03:01:39:24 1945 or 1946 Color Silent HISTORY: POST-BLAST JAPAN - DAMAGE Damaging Effects of the A-Bomb Good PAN ruins of Japanese town after US atomic blast and mountains on horizon. Men pull cart down road. Complete devastation. PA (8076) 3015-3 03:01:39:25 -- 03:01:52:00 1945 or 1946 Color Silent HISTORY: POST-BLAST JAPAN - DAMAGE Damaging Effects of the A-Bomb Man pulling woman in rickshaw cart across bridge, surrounded by town ruins after atomic blast. CU footprint flash burn from bomb radiation on surface of bridge. PA (8076) 3015-4 03:01:52:01 -- 03:02:25:29 1945 or 1946 Color Silent HISTORY: POST-BLAST JAPAN - DAMAGE Damaging Effects of the A-Bomb PAN ruined buildings on riverbanks and nuclear devastation after atomic bomb blast. PA (8076) 3015-5 03:02:26:01 -- 03:02:36:05 1945 or 1946 Color Silent HISTORY: POST-BLAST JAPAN - DAMAGE Damaging Effects of the A-Bomb VS ruins of buildings, devastation after atomic blast. People walking down footpath past jutting corner of destroyed brick building. People walking through entrance to damaged stone building. PA (8076) 3015-6 03:02:36:07 -- 03:03:36:16 1945 or 1946 Color Silent HISTORY: POST-BLAST JAPAN - DAMAGE Damaging Effects of the A-Bomb PAN street scene in devastated Japanese town- facades of ruined buildings after atomic blast. Overhead PAN city ruins, bicyclists and horsedrawn carts on road. Ruins of buildings. Flash burns on telephone pole. PA (8076) 3015-7 03:03:36:17 -- 03:03:43:15 1945 or 1946 Color Silent HISTORY: FLASH BURNS Damaging Effects of the A-Bomb CU hand holding leaves in front of burns on telephone pole, moving to reveal leaf print flash burns on wooden telephone pole after atomic bomb blast. PA (8076) 3015-8 03:03:43:16 -- 03:04:02:03 1946 Color Silent HISTORY: FLASH BURNS USAF documentary of bomb damage- Nagasaki. CU rope tied over wooden box. Rope is moved to reveal cross-shaped flash burns from atomic blast. VTM (8102) 3015-9 03:04:02:04 -- 03:04:18:05 1946 Color Silent HISTORY: FLASH BURNS USAF Strategic Bombing Survey series documentary. TD metal pipe and ladder showing flash burns after atomic blast- Hiroshima. DN (8024) 3015-10 03:04:18:06 -- 03:04:31:29 1946 Color Silent HISTORY: FLASH BURNS US Strategic Bombing Survey series documentary. Japanese man sitting on stone steps outside of building. He steps up to show human shape of flash burn left after US atomic blast Hiroshima, Japan. DN (8024) 3015-11 03:04:32:00 -- 03:04:49:13 1946 Color Silent HISTORY: FLASH BURNS United States Strategic Bombing Survey series documentary. CU Flash burns on burnt out car after atomic blast. HA man pulling woman in large rickshaw cart crossing fenced bridge. DN (8024) 3015-12 03:04:49:14 -- 03:05:06:24 1945, 1946 B W w Sound HISTORY: FLASH BURNS Atomic Cafe documentary. VS US army man stepping in footprint flash burns on bridge where human being was walking during atomic attack. He points out footprints and outlines them in chalk. VO: Enola Gay pilot Paul Tibbets calling investigation "classroom experiment" to determine bomb damage. EXT sign for Nagasaki Infectious Hospital. ATC (8113) 3015-13 03:05:06:25 -- 03:05:45:02 1945 or 1946 Color Silent HISTORY: POST-BLAST JAPAN - INJURIES VERY GRAPHIC. "Damaging Effects of the A-Bomb" documentary. VS severe burn victims from atomic bomb blast. Scarred flesh on woman's face, back, limbs. PA (8076) 3015-14 03:05:45:03 -- 03:09:12:16 1945 B W w Sound HISTORY: POST-BLAST JAPAN - INJURIES VERY GRAPHIC. Children with severe injuries from Nagasaki atomic bomb radiation are treated in school house. VO: British narrator, moody violin music. Describes injuries- burns on feet, girl who was 400' from blast, fingers "about to fall off" hair loss, skin loss, removal of flesh from boy's jaw, mouth, who "died three days later." September 24 25, 1945. DN (8024) 3015-15 03:09:12:17 -- 03:09:46:04 1945, 1970s Color w Sound HISTORY: POST-BLAST JAPAN - INJURIES VERY GRAPHIC. "Dark Circle" documentary. Survivor of Nagasaki attack, Sumiteru Taniguchi, being treated in 1945. Severe radiation burns on back. Cuts to Taniguchi 1970s interview - back to 1945 US Army footage. "For one year and nine months, I didn't know if I would live or die." IDG (8053) 3015-16 03:09:46:05 -- 03:10:09:15 1946 Color Silent HISTORY: POST-BLAST JAPAN - INJURIES VERY GRAPHIC. Survivor of Nagasaki attack, Sumiteru Taniguchi, with severe radiation burns on back winces in pain as he is treated after atomic blast. VTM (8102) 3015-17 03:10:09:16 -- 03:10:42:11 1970s Color w Sound HISTORY: POST-BLAST JAPAN - INJURIES VERY GRAPHIC. "Dark Circle" documentary. Survivor of Nagasaki attack, Sumiteru Taniguchi, at home, 1970s. Wife preparing food in kitchen. He removes his shirt revealing scars from atomic blast. IDG (8053) 3015-18 03:10:42:12 -- 03:11:41:14 1946 Color Silent HISTORY: POST-BLAST JAPAN - INJURIES VERY GRAPHIC- USAF documentary. VS women with various radiation injuries, scars, burns, missing limbs in Japanese Red Cross hospitals after atomic bombs. Some shots also show devastation of Hiroshima in BG. VTM (8102) 3015-19 03:11:41:15 -- 03:11:55:06 1945, 1946 Color Silent HISTORY: POST-BLAST JAPAN - INJURIES GRAPHIC- "Atomic Cafe" documentary. Hand with radiation burns compared to healthy hand. Woman with burns and x-shape scars across her torso, CU woman's face with burns on forehead. ATC (8113) 3015-20 03:11:55:07 -- 03:12:06:25 1950s Color w Sound ANIMATION 1950s documentary on wonders of atomic energy. ZI on globe. Title: "The Atomic Age!" Animation: Flash and atomic glow on horizon. GMP (8109) 3015-21 03:12:06:26 -- 03:12:19:25 1953 Color w Sound ANIMATION A is for Atom GE documentary. Animation: Mushroom cloud explodes on horizon at night shadow spreads over city. Good VO male host, majestic music: "The atomic age was born...Since that moment, the shadow of the atom bomb has been across all our lives." PA (8076) 3015-22 03:12:19:26 -- 03:12:23:24 1953 Color w Sound ANIMATION A is for Atom GE documentary. Animation: colored atoms floating in space. PA (8076) 3015-23 03:12:23:25 -- 03:12:59:13 1953 Color w Sound ANIMATION A is for Atom GE documentary. Animation: splitting of the atom by scientists in 1939- firing neutron at nucleus of uranium. VO male host, drum roll: "And the result- nuclear fission!" "Double miracle of science." PA (8076) 3015-24 03:12:59:14 -- 03:13:09:05 1953 Color w Sound ANIMATION A is for Atom GE documentary. Animation: explosion turns into cartoon of irradiated Albert Einstein smoking pipe with formula for theory of relativity. VO male host: "Mass and energy are really the same." PA (8076) 3015-25 03:13:09:06 -- 03:13:52:02 1953 Color w Sound ANIMATION A is for Atom GE documentary. Animation: VO male host: nuclear chain reaction- atom splitting, energy release, radiation, free neutrons bombarding and splitting uranium. "Over a million, billion, billion atoms exploding within two seconds." Screen flashes. PA (8076) 3015-26 03:13:52:03 -- 03:14:12:05 B W w Sound ANIMATION Blessings of Atomic Energy documentary. Animated atom, electrons. VO: male host: explaining parts of atom, diameter of nucleus. DN (8024) 3015-27 03:14:12:06 -- 03:14:17:20 Color w Sound ANIMATION Dark Circle documentary. Animated atom with explosion - splitting atom, metamorphosizing into glowing muscle-bound figure standing on horizon. VO woman: "The atom became part of our culture." IDG (8053) 3015-28 03:14:17:21 -- 03:14:40:04 Color Silent ANIMATION Atomic Cafe documentary. Animation: Atomic Bomb drops and explodes, circular blue radiation rays spiraling and spreading over cartoon city. Front of orange radiation wave spreads over landscape. Creepy. ATC (8113) 3015-29 03:14:40:05 -- 03:14:40:22 B W w Sound ANIMATION Atomic Cafe documentary. Animated atomic bomb blast (brief). ATC (8113) 3015-30 03:14:40:23 -- 03:15:08:22 1961 Color w Sound ANIMATION Radiological Defense US Civil Defense film. Animation. ZO from mushroom cloud. Radiation spreads across landscape. VO male host: fallout spreading from ground zero. PA (8076) 3015-31 03:15:08:23 -- 03:15:10:18 B W w Sound ANIMATION Atomic Cafe documentary. Animation: city is leveled by atomic bomb blast.(widening circle) ATC (8113) 3015-32 03:15:10:19 -- 03:15:25:03 1963 Color w Sound ANIMATION About Fallout US civil defense film. Animation atomic bomb mushroom cloud. VO male host talking about "initial and residual" radiation from blast. PA (8076) 3015-33 03:15:25:12 -- 03:15:41:08 1963 Color w Sound ANIMATION About Fallout US civil defense film. VO male host. Simulation: Radiation cloud of dust falls over small scale model of farm. VO: male host. Radiation undetectable without scientific radiological instruments. PA (8076) 3015-34 03:15:41:09 -- 03:16:03:11 Color Silent ANIMATION Damaging Effects of the A-Bomb Animation. Atomic bomb explodes above three identical office buildings. Explosion and radiation spreading from core. PA (8076) 3015-35 03:16:03:12 -- 03:16:22:11 Color Silent ANIMATION Damaging Effects of the A-Bomb Animation: radiation billows out in circular motion past mile markers on ground. PA (8076) 3015-36 03:16:22:12 -- 03:16:30:21 Color Silent ANIMATION Damaging Effects of the A-Bomb Animation: office building crumples and falls from force of atomic blast (glowing light.) PA (8076) 3015-37 03:16:30:22 -- 03:16:53:28 1950 B W w Sound ATOMIC DRAMA Self-Preservation in an Atomic Attack. US military-sponsored film. Simulation. Sound: music, explosion. Atom bomb explodes on scale model landscape. Mushroom cloud rises. AFP (8004) 3015-38 03:16:53:29 -- 03:17:29:29 1950 B W w Sound ATOMIC DRAMA Self-Preservation in an Atomic Attack. US military-sponsored film. Ridiculous. VO: confident, gung-ho male host. Simulation- Sailor stands up from laying in field, watches mushroom cloud rise in distance. VO male host: "You're over the hump. The bomb has shot its big wad..." "In about two minutes after the explosion, the area underneath the burst will be free from dangerous radiation." So- "Get moving." Sailor brushes himself off. AFP (8004) 3015-39 03:17:30:00 -- 03:17:48:17 1950 B W w Sound ATOMIC DRAMA Self-Preservation in an Atomic Attack. US military-sponsored film. Model city is engulfed by radioactive cloud from atomic blast. Three servicemen watch cloud from street, take cover in building. VO host: "If you saw it advancing on you a mile away, you'd have about 30 seconds to take cover." AFP (8004) 3015-40 03:17:49:10 -- 03:17:54:18 1950s Color w Sound ATOMIC SITE SIGN Sign "US Atomic Energy Commission - Nevada Test Site, Mercury, Nevada." VO male host: "That's why we have the Nevada test site. It's sort of a back yard work shop." Truck driving past checkpoint. DN (8024) 3015-41 03:17:54:19 -- 03:18:08:20 1951 B W w Sound PREPARING FOR TEST Survival Under Atomic Attack. VS construction of US military "Survival Town" nuclear test area- welder on roof of building. VO male host: use of mannequins, stocking houses with canned foods. Creepy. "The big dolls were Survival Town's sole inhabitants." PA (8076) 3015-42 03:18:08:21 -- 03:18:39:29 1955 Color w Sound PREPARING FOR TEST Let's Face it Simulation- Operation Doorstep. VO male host. Fake trees are placed in simulated forest for nuclear testing. Cameras, scientific instruments put in place for recording "blast phenomena." PA (8076) 3015-43 03:18:40:00 -- 03:20:19:07 1940s or 1950s B W Silent TEST EFFECTS: MIXED MONTAGE Excellent montage- Atomic testing footage. Blast cloud overturns and destroys vehicles. Four women and child stand on cliff wearing goggles. Buildings in flames and collapsing. Bridge being blown to pieces. School bus, car consumed in flame and smoke. Atomic wave of fire blasting through forest. SLO MO palm trees on beach blowing in wave of fire. VS buildings and roofs blowing up. Mobile home overturning, buildings imploding. VAT (8117) 3015-44 03:20:19:08 -- 03:22:03:07 1940s or 1950s B W Silent TEST EFFECTS: INANIMATE OBJECTS Atomic bomb test simulation (synthetic forest) white light, VS trees waving with smoke billowing during test blasts, some in slow motion. WS trees smoking. VAT (8117) 3015-45 03:22:03:08 -- 03:22:25:01 1953 B W w Sound TEST EFFECTS: INANIMATE OBJECTS Nuclear testing on airplanes. Fuselages, tails ripped apart, on fire in slow motion. DN (8024) 3015-46 03:22:25:02 -- 03:22:33:24 1960s Color w Sound TEST EFFECTS: INANIMATE OBJECTS Chinese atomic tests - truck on fire from blast, installation, building, and tent are destroyed in blast. VO English- "extremely accurate and successful explosion." DN (8024) 3015-47 03:22:33:25 -- 03:23:12:26 1957 B W w Sound TEST EFFECTS: INANIMATE OBJECTS Dark Circle documentary. VS nuclear tests military footage with test names on screen showing effects of atomic blasts on cars, human dummies, inanimate objects, animal dummies. "Apple II," "Met," "Snowball," "Grable," human and deer dummy. IDG (8053) 3015-48 03:23:12:27 -- 03:24:04:20 1950s B W w Sound SOLDIERS PREPARING FOR TEST Atomic Cafe documentary. Unconvincing US army chaplain talks to two grunt soldiers in trench in monotone about atomic blast test, reassuring them that they will not suffer any harm from blast because of army's thorough precautions. "Actually soldier there's no need to be worried..." He describes bright light, shock wave, fireball "ascending up into the heavens. A wonderful sight to behold." Scary. ATC (8113) 3015-49 03:24:04:21 -- 03:25:47:11 1950s Color w Sound SOLDIERS PREPARING FOR TEST VO male host. VS US army soldiers at briefing before atomic test training exercise "to move as quick as possible into the blasted area and behind enemy lines." Instructor calls atomic explosion "one of the most beautiful sights known to man." He writes three atomic effects on chalkboard- Blast, Heat and Radiation. Downplays effect of radiation as 'least important.' "If you receive enough gamma radiation to cause sterility or severe sickness, you'll be killed by glass or flying debris anyway." Two of the soldiers turn to each other, looking concerned. ATC (8113) 3015-50 03:25:47:12 -- 03:26:12:22 1945 Color Silent TEST EFFECTS: PROTECTIVE MASK Los Alamos, New Mexico. CU soldier on desert road with back turned to camera. Wears protective face mask - Removes it and turns to show gray radiation dust outline left on unprotected areas of face and head. DN (8024) 3015-51 03:26:12:23 -- 03:27:38:13 1950s B W, Color w Sound TEST EFFECTS: SOLDIERS OBSERVING Dark Circle documentary. Ominous music. Excellent montage of US military involved in atomic testing. VO woman: "Over 2,000 atomic veterans filed for disability. The US army has granted 24 of those claims." VS groups of soldiers wearing goggles. SLOW MO four women and child standing on hill during blast. Soldiers climb out of trenches carrying rifles, walk toward mushroom cloud in distance. IDG (8053) 3015-52 03:27:38:14 -- 03:28:26:04 1950 Color w Sound TEST EFFECTS: SOLDIERS OBSERVING VO: military countdown (5-4-3-2-1) to atomic test in desert. Blast. Excellent VS Soldiers in foxholes and trenches flinching and taking cover during blast. Soldiers raise their heads from holes, looking at explosion. VO male narrator: effects felt, heat and blast wave- invisible radiation unsensed. ATC (8113) 3015-53 03:28:26:05 -- 03:28:41:05 1955 B W, Color w Sound TEST EFFECTS: SOLDIERS AND OBJECTS Let's Face It. Atomic educational film. Scratchy. VS Atomic blast wave, rolling clouds knocking down small buildings and blasting soldiers in trenches. VO: male narrator: "Seconds later the blast wave reaches the trenches." Soldiers covering mouths, eyes. PA (8076) 3015-54 03:28:41:06 -- 03:29:17:15 1950s Color w Sound TEST EFFECTS: SOLDIERS, TREES, OBJECTS Excellent Atomic test blast wave blowing through trees and knocking them over. Roofs blowing off exploding buildings. Wave covering soldiers in trenches. VS Faces and WS of soldiers watching mushroom cloud explosion in desert. VO: male narrator: "This is the awesome power- and the power we have today is greater than any adversary or combination of adversaries." DN (8024) 3015-55 03:29:17:16 -- 03:29:21:23 1950s Color Silent TEST EFFECTS: SOLDIERS OBSERVING VS soldiers standing and ducking back down in trenches during atomic blast wave in desert nuclear test. ATC (8113) 3015-56 03:29:21:24 -- 03:29:32:04 1950s Color Silent TEST EFFECTS: SOLDIERS OBSERVING WS smoke trails in sky from US atomic test in desert. Blast wave blows across brush, and good side view- slams over soldiers in trenches. Officer holding hand over mouth. Soldier tries to stand and ducks back down. ATC (8113) 3015-57 03:29:32:05 -- 03:29:35:11 1950s Color Silent TEST EFFECTS: SOLDIERS OBSERVING Battalion of US soldiers in FG watching atomic mushroom cloud nuclear test. Audio: sound of explosion. ATC (8113) 3015-58 03:29:35:12 -- 03:30:20:23 1950s Color w Sound TEST EFFECTS: SOLDIERS OBSERVING VS Soldiers in fatigues and helmets with rifles step out of trenches, walking and running toward atomic mushroom cloud on horizon. Good TU soldiers running to atomic cloud. Audio: atomic blast, rumble. ATC (8113) 3015-59 03:30:20:24 -- 03:31:29:18 1950s B W w Sound TEST EFFECTS: SOLDIERS, BUILDINGS Excellent Atomic test- US military Survival Town in desert. Soldiers taking cover in trenches with blankets over backs. Audio: bomb rumble, majestic horns. VS structures and buildings during test blast. Ladder wavering in wind. Fisheye mirror view of atomic blast wave clouds. WS blast clouds sweeping through model Survival Town, knocking down structures, telephone poles, power lines etc. Interior of model house during blast. Mannequin family turning white in heat. House blowing up. PA (8076) 3015-60 03:31:29:19 -- 03:31:42:29 1953 Color w Sound TEST EFFECTS: SOLDIERS OBSERVING VS Military scientists, observers watch atomic cloud after desert test. VO male narrator: wind speeds, directions. DN (8024) 3015-61 03:31:43:00 -- 03:31:57:22 1946 Color Silent TEST EFFECTS: SOLDIERS OBSERVING Group of sailors on deck of ship holding their heads down, cradled in their arms for "safety" during atomic test- Bikini Atoll, Pacific. DN (8024) 3015-62 03:31:57:23 -- 03:32:23:25 1950s Color w Sound TEST EFFECTS: SOLDIERS OBSERVING US military atomic test in Nevada desert. CU man reading military countdown (5-4-3-2-1)ZI Atomic bomb in housing at top of platform explodes. WS military observers huddled in FG as mushroom cloud, fireball rises into sky. DN (8024) 3015-63 03:32:23:26 -- 03:32:39:10 1950s B W Silent TEST EFFECTS: SOLDIERS OBSERVING WS US soldiers sitting on side of hill with heads resting on their knees - taking cover for safety during atomic test. WS soldiers laying flat face down on side of hill, blinding white flash of bomb test. DN (8024) 3015-64 03:32:39:11 -- 03:32:52:25 1950s B W w Sound SOLDIER SPEAKS POST-TEST CU US Army reporter in uniform holds microphone interviewing Black soldier in helmet about being in trench closest to bomb blast. "Was it what you expected?" "It was more." "Were you scared to be as close as you were?" "Oh I was." DN (8024) 3015-65 03:32:52:26 -- 03:32:54:02 1951 B W Silent MEDIA HILL SIGN Survival Under Atomic Attack B W Sign for Media Hill, Yucca Flat, Nevada nuclear test site sign at night. Pop. 1800. PA (8076) 3015-66 03:32:54:03 -- 03:33:06:11 1953 Color w Sound TEST EFFECTS: GOGGLES and OBSERVING VS crowds of US military and civilian observers putting on and wearing protective goggles in preparation for atomic tests in Nevada desert test site. Stirring music. DN (8024) 3015-67 03:33:06:12 -- 03:33:12:10 1953 Color w Sound TEST EFFECTS: GOGGLES and OBSERVING VO: stern military voice "T minus one minute- put on your goggles." Two civilian women and two civilian men put on goggles excitedly. DN (8024) 3015-68 03:33:12:11 -- 03:33:51:29 1953 Color w Sound TEST EFFECTS: GOGGLES and OBSERVING VS US Air Force volunteers test atomic blast's flare effect on eyesight. Men inside lab put on protective goggles, look through windows at atomic blast, then look into scientific scopes. VO: "Not one of these volunteers suffered any permanent eye damage." The results were passed on to the "thoroughly interested civilian agencies." DN (8024) 3015-69 03:33:52:00 -- 03:34:17:10 1960s Color w Sound TEST EFFECTS: GOGGLES and OBSERVING Chinese film. WS Chinese soldiers kneeling in long line in trench before second nuclear test. VS men put on dark glasses and goggles. Scratchy explosion, orange glow in sky. English VO: "Our nation successfully explodes its second nuclear bomb in the sky over the Western part of our country." DN (8024) 3015-70 03:34:17:29 -- 03:35:14:03 1957 B W, Color w Sound TEST EFFECTS: ANIMALS GRAPHIC! "Dark Circle" documentary. US military Priscilla nuclear test. VS Handlers picking up pigs from fenced area, placing them in raised pen containers, zipping them into radiation suits. VO female narrator: 35 year history of atomic testing on animals. Pigs used to determine atomic radiation's effect on skin. WS PAN men putting pigs into long line of pens. Atomic blast, flare. Sound: pigs screaming. IDG (8053) 3015-71 03:35:14:04 -- 03:35:31:09 1957 B W w Sound TEST EFFECTS: ANIMALS GRAPHIC! "Dark Circle" documentary. US military Priscilla pig test. Badly injured burned pigs after blast. VO female narrator: "The pig test was written off as a failure. The pigs managed to survive with burns over 80% of their bodies." IDG (8053) 3015-72 03:35:31:10 -- 03:36:14:22 1950s B W, Color Silent TEST EFFECTS: ANIMALS GRAPHIC! "Dark Circle" documentary. US military Priscilla pig tests. Handlers lowering badly injured pigs from pens after atomic blast. Man recording results over dead, badly burned pig. ATC (8113) 3015-73 03:36:14:23 -- 03:37:13:22 1960s Color w Sound TEST EFFECTS: ANIMALS Chinese nuclear tests with animals- dogs, chickens, monkeys. Silhouette of dog on cliff during atomic blast. , chickens and monkeys. English VO: protection underground vs. exposure on surface. Dogs in underground cages unharmed. Chickens in pens laid eggs after atomic blast. Monkeys "leaped only once" during blast- still unharmed underground. DN (8024) 3015-74 03:37:13:23 -- 03:37:51:04 1953 Color w Sound AIRPLANE FLIES THROUGH ATOMIC CLOUD USAF airplane flies through atomic cloud collecting radiation samples. VO male narrator samples collected through filters mounted on wings. VS pilots in cockpit. "Advanced techniques make it possible for these crews to fly through the clouds without harm" and "stay inside it for a while" with "proper precautions." DN (8024) 3015-75 03:37:51:05 -- 03:37:56:23 1940s B W Silent PREPARING ANIMALS FOR TEST Operation Crossroads, Bikini Atoll, Pacific Proving Grounds. Navy crewmen pour solution on bare skin of sheared sheep & put animals inside metal frames on ship's deck. VAT (8117) 3015-76 03:37:56:24 -- 03:37:59:25 1940s B W Silent TEST-EFFECTS: ANIMALS GRAPHIC! Operation Crossroads, Bikini Atoll, Pacific Proving Grounds. Crewmen remove dead mutilated sheep from metal frames on ship deck after atomic test on Pacific Ocean. VAT (8117) 3015-77 03:37:59:26 -- 03:38:08:19 1940s B W Silent TEST-EFFECTS: ANIMALS GRAPHIC! Operation Crossroads, Bikini Atoll, Pacific Proving Grounds. CU Navy Crewmen put remains of dead sheep in bags after atomic test. VAT (8117) 3015-78 03:38:08:20 -- 03:41:28:26 1957 Color Silent PRISCILLA PREPARATION AND AFTERMATH Excellent GRAPHIC montage Priscilla PlumbBob test- Hood 74 kiloton bomb raised on dirigible balloon 1500' above ground. Nevada desert. PAN helicopters. Troops run in desert, military vehicle. Unloading pigs from truck for experimentation. Soldiers loading on to helicopter. Pig in trench. Soldiers in trench. Military men watching nuclear detonation. Pigs run in pen during atomic explosion. Dirigible bursting & crashing. VS large group of helicopters in sky. Scientists wearing protective clothing & gas masks inspect damage, examine pigs. VAT (8117) 3015-79 03:41:28:27 -- 03:42:06:09 1954 B W, Color w Sound TEST EFFECTS: HUMAN BEINGS - MARSHALL ISLANDERS GRAPHIC! Military doctors examine Marshall islanders with radiation sickness after Bravo 15 megaton US test in Bikini. VO Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission denying grave impact of fallout. "They anticipate no illness." VS of marks or burns on skin, neck, extremities. hair loss, CU hand pulling tufts of hair from man's scalp. (sick) ATC (8113) 3015-80 03:42:06:10 -- 03:42:27:08 1954 B W Silent TEST EFFECTS: HUMAN BEINGS - MARSHALL ISLANDERS Newspaper clips about Hydrogen bomb fallout from Bikini Island Bravo nuclear test. "H-Test a Close Squeak for Marshall Islanders," "4 Islanders Dusted by Ashes..." VS native Pacific Islanders exposed to radiation w burns on head, face & back examined in hospital. VAT (8117) 3015-81 03:42:26:10 -- 03:42:27:08 1954 Color Silent TEST EFFECTS: HUMAN BEINGS - MARSHALL ISLANDERS Brief CU hand pointing to radiation fallout burns on person's neck after Bravo Hydrogen bomb test in Bikini Islands. VAT (8117) 3015-82 03:42:27:09 -- 03:43:06:11 1950s B W w Sound TEST EFFECTS: INANIMATE OBJECTS Doomtown atomic test site. Static on television set. Dramatic- CU male mannequin in house, lamp shaking, ZI male & female mannequins. Windows & walls bursting in blast. Original footage EXT of house bursting apart, blast leveling trees, barns, trailers etc. Mushroom cloud explosion. ZO broken male mannequin on floor of house. VAT (8117) 3015-83 03:43:06:12 -- 03:43:18:06 1950s Color Silent TEST EFFECTS: MARSHALL ISLANDS AV pan test explosion aftermath and destruction of one of Marshall Islands from Bravo atomic test in Pacific Ocean. VAT (8117) 3015-84 03:43:18:07 -- 03:43:29:24 1954 Color Silent TEST EFFECTS: MARSHALL ISLANDS Test aftermath and destruction of one of Marshall Islands after Bravo test. Collapsed buildings, frames, debris. Construction vehicle moving sand. VAT (8117) 3015-85 03:43:29:25 -- 03:43:42:07 1948 Color Silent TEST-EFFECTS: OPERATION SANDSTONE Operation Sandstone. VS on beach (Eniwetok?) post-test, sand blowing, men wearing masks examine detonation site, picking up wreckage (corrugated roofs, etc.) VAT (8117) 3015-86 03:43:42:08 -- 03:43:50:29 1948 Color Silent GOGGLES and OBSERVING Operation Sandstone (Eniwetok?) Eerie orange glow of atomic blast. Excellent WS US Navy crewmen lifting goggles to observe, bathed in orange light. VAT (8117) 3015-87 03:43:51:00 -- 03:43:59:27 1951 Color Silent GOGGLES and OBSERVING VS Military men putting on protective goggles during nuclear test. Great shot of men watching atomic white flash while wearing protective eyewear & sitting in Adirondack chairs. VAT (8117) 3015-88 03:43:59:28 -- 03:44:03:12 1951 Color Silent GOGGLES and OBSERVING Great shot of US military servicemen watching test explosion with atomic white flash while wearing protective eyewear & sitting in Adirondack chairs. VAT (8117) 3015-89 03:44:03:13 -- 03:44:10:16 1958 Color Silent GOGGLES and OBSERVING Pilots in FG sit on airstrip, put on goggles & plastic bags with B-52 airplanes in BG, preparing for atomic blast VAT (8117) 3015-90 03:44:10:17 -- 03:44:13:15 1958 Color Silent GOGGLES and OBSERVING MS backs of four people sitting on beach observing blast, white flash. CU Transistor radio on sand. VAT (8117) 3015-91 03:44:13:16 -- 03:44:21:15 1951 Color Silent OBSERVING AND RECORDING - CAMERAMEN Operation Upshot Knothole. Good Pan from atomic fireball to three cameramen filming atomic test, Nevada desert. VAT (8117) 3015-92 03:44:21:16 -- 03:44:41:14 1958 Color Silent OBSERVING AND RECORDING - CAMERAMEN Three cameramen in silhouette film atomic test blast, orange mushroom cloud on horizon from beach in Pacific Islands during US Navy test. VAT (8117) 3015-93 03:44:41:15 -- 03:45:57:09 1955 Color w Sound COUNTDOWN AND UNDERWATER TEST Operation Wigwam. Audio: Military countdown to "zero time." VS cameras & measuring instruments inside submarine. VS military officers standing on deck, looking through binoculars. Serviceman getting computer readouts, checking gauges. C
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